Bleitz, Dana E.; Salls, Roy A.(National Park Service, 1993)
The striking development in the 9,500 year adaptation of the maritime culture to San Clemente Island is the increasing-importance of kelp bed fishing. This evolution can be traced through faunal and artifact records. The ...
This paper constitutes the second investigation of the lichens of Santa Barbara Island. The collections made on the island by Blanche Trask in 1901-1902 were previously reported by Hasse (1903a-d, 1913). The known lichen ...
Wolfbrandt Mastro, Lisa(National Park Service, 1987)
Exotic introduced species can disrupt native ecosystems and be particularly devastating on islands. Two brooms, Dyers' greenwold (Cytisus linifolius) and French broom (C. monspessulanus) (Fabaceae) may potentially outcompete ...
The natural history of four sympatric species of red seaweeds in the genus Rhodymenia Greville (R. californica Kylin, R. pacifica Kylin, R. callophyllidoides Hollenberg & Abbott and R. arborescens Dawson) was investigated ...
Research on San Nicolas Island prehistory currently describes an aboriginal maritime adaptation which appeared about 6,800 years ago. Faunal data from the stratified site of SNI-11 indicate an early procurement strategy ...
Despite the importance of fire in the maintenance of chaparral and closed-cone pine forests on the mainland, there have been only three documented lightning-caused fires in such habitats on the islands during the past 140 ...
Davis, W. A.; Junak, Steven A.(National Park Service, 1987)
Natural hybridization between Malacothrix polycephala W . Davis (ined.), an annual, and M . incana (Nutt.) Torrey & A. Gray, a perennial, on San Nicolas Island, California was examined using herbarium studies, studies in ...
Certain archaeological sites on the northern Channel Islands dating between ca. 4,500 and 7,500 B.P. contain unusually high frequencies of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) shells. Assuming that aboriginal peoples living ...
Isla de Cedros lies within an arid climatic region and supports a diversity of vegetation community associations. These range from sarcocaulescent desert, made up of succulent-stem trees and shrubs, to coastal sage scrub, ...
The carbonized vegetation associated with Pleistocene "fire areas" and mammoth and bird fossils on the Northern Channel Islands has been attributed to wildfires and to the cooking of mammoths by humans. This paper elaborates ...